How can mass produced products like Salsa taste the same every time when the vegetables they contain have so many variables?

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How can mass produced products like Salsa taste the same every time when the vegetables they contain have so many variables?

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Answer 1

People have talked about scale of food preparations, and that is probably part of it, but at least for something like orange juice, there’s a whole other aspect to it. Commercial pasteurized orange juice is far more processed than you’d probably think so that juice companies can control the precise flavor:

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Health/orange-juice-moms-secret-ingredient-worries/story?id=15154617